Well as in london. We begin with a biggie week a busy week for Central Banks. Bank of japan says they will take on unlimited buying of Government Bonds, lifting the cap also on corporate holdings. I, he joins us now. , kitchen sink, we are still throwing it. Michael Central Banks are all as string the question of what you do when you have throwing the kitchen sink. In the back of japans case, you just make the sink a little bigger. The bank of japan already has negative rates, Corporate Bond and etf buying, and an emergency Lending Program, so they just decided to make those programs a bit bigger. Unchanged at rate 10 basis points. Remember, they do yield curve control. They mentioned they would buy as many Corporate Bonds as they need to and expanding access to its Emergency Loan Program for a wider range of banks. For analysts, theres a bit less here than meets the eye. They dropped their ¥80 trillion limit on Government Bond buying, but they werent buying anywhere trillion, so it d
Hard to make anything of any positions being taken into the weekend, were something good or bad can end up happening. Time for todays market moving news from brussels, as well as our new york teams. Europe, approving a shortterm deal. Ombergs part two bloomberg spoke to germany z for president to spoke to germanys you for germanys ifo president. If things shut down again because there is a second wave, that is catastrophic for them, so that is something that needs to be avoided. Maria tadeo joins us now. Maria european leaders met yesterday. They came up with a shortterm aid package, but the question is what we are going to do over the long term. Get any clarity yesterday. That is being reflected in the Market Action today. Any specifics on the amounts. Theres suggested that it could be one trillion euro up to 1. 5 trillion euro. Some argue this should be done through transfers. The countries that are on the weakest right now would say they want to see the bulk of it being done in tran
Here as well. Also want to point out some breaking news. Macys says their cfo paula price is going to leave the company. They are looking at an external search currently. Premarket withn the overall market. Exxon mobil also coming out, finally the last of the big majors to cut their capex. They see overall Capital Investments for this year about 23 billion. They saw up to 33 billion. They are also cutting operating expenses by about 15 . They are maintaining their longterm outlook. They say Capital Allocation priorities remain unchanged. The longest chunk of all these cuts are going to be spending in the permian basin. That is interesting. We heard something very similar with chevron, a little easier to shale. Ex within they are dealing with the fallout of the crisis. Watching those stocks as we head into the open. U. S. , as wellthe as the markets, but the collapse of the Small Business optimism i was just talking about. Gauge falling by 8. 18 points in march. Michael mckee joins us w
Stimulus plan to really help countries in the eu. You do wind up having larry fink say if you are a longterm investor, you want to buy risk. You have the dollar seeing its worst week since 2009. May be some of the liquidity funding pressure is taking a backseat. Today we are going to take a look at the market moving news from around the world, focusing on washington, as well as new york. The house is expected to approve that 2 trillion rescue package. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told bloomberg tv they will move quickly to get that. Rep. Pelosi will have a strong bipartisan vote that, hopefully by noon will be finished. That depends on how we have to come into small numbers to vote have we have to come in to the chambers in small nubbers to vote. In small numbers to vote. Now is kevin cirilli. What comes after that . Kevin all of the house members will vote on this to trillion dollar stimulus package. From there, the president will sign it virtually immediately into law. After that comes
Footing. If we do get some kind of opecplus deal, that will provide some support in the markets. Guy we are seeing equity markets bid, and it is stuff the market has really fallen out of love with that is catching the biggest bid. The travel and leisure sector, airlines, some of the catering companies, the hotel groups really bid today. Bid, up by 1 . We are anticipating any second now the start of a Video Conference call between eurozone finance ministers. We will get the results of that maybe a little later on. We continue to watch what is happening over at st. Thomas hospital, where the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is in intensive care. Withrms of what happening yields, going a little higher today. Trading at 37 basis points on the u. K. 10 year. Alix we will say higher maybe in quotes. For more on the impact of the virus, we are joined by kemal shree kumar by cobol shree kumar by hobo three rikumar. S are we seeing some sustained buying ability . Are greatse questions. I th